Decreasing the marine lefts in Italian territorial waters in period 2007-2016



In the period the 2007-2016 number of marine lefts been necessary in Italian territorial waters or those bordering ones has turned out in almost constant decrease and in single year 2016 an light increment in the number of the incidents after in the year has been found precedence was found an emphasized bending more than such given regarding the years precedence. It has been passed in fact from the 349 lefts observed in 2007 to the 248 lefts found in 2015, until the 272 recorded in 2016, with a total decrement in 2016 of the -22,06% regarding the value assumed in 2007, and an increment of +9.68% regarding the respective value of the year precedence.

It today evidences the Relationship on the marine lefts for introduced year 2016 from the Head office for the vigilance on the harbour Authorities, harbour infrastructures and the marine transport and for water internal ways of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports. The study contains the analysis of dynamics and the more frequent causes of the incidents and marine lefts, with the objective to characterize and to resolve the existing criticalities and to supply at the same time an instrument useful for operators of the marine section in order to elevate the levels of safety of marine navigation and the job on board of the ships.

The precise Relationship that the total picture of the incidents been necessary in Italian waters or those bordering ones anticipates given contrasting: even if the number of incidents in sea turns out decreasing, a fort has been found increment in the number of woundings and deaths in sea in the years from 2011 to 2013, mainly had to most serious marine lefts legacies to the phenomenon of clandestine immigration. From the carried out studies - specific the document - it is a lot interesting to find as the course of the deaths and of the woundings in the marine lefts been necessary to national ships, also introducing an increasing course from 2008 until year 2013, then is diminished in the next years. Such increment appears had to the two serious incidents happened in 2012 and 2014 to the ships Costa Concordia and Norman Atlantic mainly, within an otherwise rather uniform picture is of the deaths is of the woundings caused from marine left.

The document emphasizes moreover that a progressive decline of the navigating fleet has been found during the last few years, reason for which to the bending in the number of incidents an analogous decrease of the incidentalità index does not correspond always, in particular for the cargo ships, the transport of passengers and the fishings boat.

In the 2016 272 recorded marine lefts regarding the 248 of the year precedence they have involved 325 ships (311 in 2015) and in the course of these incidents they have gone lost 18 ships (21 in 2015). In 2016 in these lefts, so as in 2015, nine people have died and the wounded have been 33 regarding 41 in the year precedence.

The specific Relationship that the distribution of the marine lefts during 2016 does not seem influenced from the seasonality, with the exception of the incidents that have involved unit from diporto and that they have been necessary mainly during the summery season.

About the type of incidents, on the whole of period 2007-2016 the more frequent types of marine left turn out to be the sinking of the naval unit, the collision and collision (respective 20.55%, 20.52% and 17.30% of the lefts altogether been necessary in the considered period).

The criticalities tied to the goods or people, transported on board in amount excessive or distributed in way have been found that the type of more frequent marine left, that is the sinkings, mainly has as factors motives the errors or the omissions in the maintenance of the naval unit and the onboard equipments, and such to return the naval unit unstable. Instead the others two frequent categories of left much, happened altogether on beyond half of the units of commercial type, that is the collisions and hit to it, it has turned out are caused pre-eminent by criticality tied to the lacked observance of the rules from 5 to 7 and 1/2 to 18 International Regolamento in order To prevent the Boardings in Sea (COLREG), and in particular to the lacked observance the lookout-post service on board of the ship.